[4A Stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress]
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (1997 c 40) | Legislation

[4A  Stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress]

[(1)     A person (“A”) whose course of conduct—

(a)     amounts to stalking, and

(b)     either—

(i)     causes another (“B”) to fear, on at least two occasions, that violence will be used against B, or

(ii)     causes B serious alarm or distress which has a substantial adverse effect on B's usual day-to-day activities,

is guilty of an offence if A knows or ought to know that A's course of conduct will cause B so to fear on each of those occasions or (as the case may be) will cause such alarm or distress.

(2)     For the purposes of this section A ought to

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